The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-02

S The County Commissioners of Heard
county passed a resolution at their last
meeting asking the Governor not to inter
: fere any further with the sentence Of the
court in the case of John w. Smith.
Bob Hartsfeld rode from Crawford into
Athens, a distance of - miles, Monday
morning on bicycle. He reports a pleasant
and uneventful trip. The bicycle is getting
to be quite popular mode of loconotion
now in that section.
Mrs. DIR. j. A. Etheridge, of Eatonton
experienced a very painful accident Satur-
day evening. While descending the stairs
ct her home she stumbled and fell, breaking
her right arm and otherwise injuring her
self. Her injuries are painful, but not at
al serious.
Judge Lewis Webb, of Buena Vista, died
Monday morning at 6 o'clock. He had been
ID poor health for more than year. Judge
4 Webb was among the first settlers of Buena
Vista, having resided there near forty years.
He was 60 years of age, and leaves wife
I'd mourn his death.
The mail and express train on the Bruins
wick and Western railroad that left Albany
at IL o'clock a. III. last Sunday, was badly
wrecked in sight of Poulan. Notwithstand-
ing the almost complete demolition of the
engine and baggage and mail cars no one
sustained any serious injury.
Madeline West, who was before the courts
in Atlanta some days ago on a charge of Ell
Hcing children away from their homes, has
struck Macon. Officer johnson heard she
was UP to her old tricks there and arrested
her She procured counsel, and after a
careful trial she was released.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad Com
pany paid into the Comptroller Generals
Office Tuesday SIS, 900, the amount due the
State for rent for the month of May In
the sixteen years that this road has been
under the control Of the present company it
has never failed to pay the rental upon the
last business day of each month.
Deputy Marshal Murphy, of Atlanta, ar
rested on Monday w. T.. Mitchell, the Ma
vietta street wine room man, who is charged
with having carried on the business of Illicit
distller in Madison county about year
ago. He was taken before Commissioner
Haight, and waving examination, gave
bond in the sum of $500 TO appear in court
A malignant type of dysentery is preva-
lent in some portions Of Quitman county.
Mr.. John l.. Cumbie has lost three children,
and now his fourth child is lying critically
in the neighborhood are suffering with it,
and with fatal results IL seems to battle
the skill of the best physicians.
A. II. Moore, the general manager of the
Franklin and Mcdonald mine in Cherokee
county, was circulating through Atlanta
Monday with gold king" in his hand. A
gold king is cone-shaped chunk of solid
gold, weighing 1000 pennyweights and
worth $4,000. Mr.. Moore gets out such
chunk about once a week, and expects to do
still better.
A painful accident happened TO w. w.
Ellis, express messenger on the Air Line
Belle at the express office in Atlanta Tues
day morning. He was walking across the
floor when his pistol, which he carried in
the tin box, fell TO the floor and went off,
'erding bullet through the fieshy part Of
the calf of his right leg. The wound is
, painful, but in no sense dangerous.
Monday morning traction engine
arrived in Athens by the Georgia railroad
from the Guyser Manufacturing Company
Maynesboro, Pa. It was shipped to j. G.
Eberhart, of OglethOrpe county. He fred
Il up al the depot and drove up the hill,
thence down across the bridge and out
towards his home in Oglethoipe. The engine
will make 35 miles on the first trip.
Jesse Robson, the Tax Collector of Wash
tlgton county, against whom the Comp
ROLLER General has issued Il. ia. for some
R,S00, the amount due the State, went be
Tore the Governor Tuesday and asked that
the execution against him be suspended for
thirty days. After fully considering the
subject, tho Governor decided that he had
no authority to take any such action.
On Saturday night Mr.. Ed Carswell. liv-
ing at McElmurrny's Mill on the Eechecon-
nee creek, In the Warrior district. went out
WITH his family 60 spend the night. When
the family returned SUNDAY morning there